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Final Cut Pro LT / RT import turns out mono
I brought my movie to The Post Group for the HD-SR Layoff. After importing 8 audio stems (6 stems of 5.1 and 2 stems of full mix Right and Left stereo the result has been that the LT / RT are in mono on the tape. What are they doing wrong. I’ve told them that the two RT / LT stems are separate mono stems that need to be panned hard R & L. Am I making sense? What are they doing wrong?
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Perhaps you are confusing them with the terminology. You have final mixes, not stems. Stems are elements of the mix – music, dialog, FX.
Yes the final stereo mix (Lt/Rt) needs to be hard panned hard left and right, or routed directly to a tape channel. What are they using to play out to tape?
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YOu need to PAN them in the VIEWER. When you receive the AIFF files they are mono…panned 0. You need to manually pan them -1 for Left and 1 for Right. I got stung with this too.
Shane
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Yes I am confusing the terminology. I’m a songwriter–this is a movie I’m completing for my brother who passed. Sorry for my ‘greenness’. Yes these were the full mix RT/LT files–but each a mono wave file. The first layoff was from FCP I believe. Now their sister co has it (Novastar) and they’re attempting to lay off from Pro Tools…so they told me–the QT file has already been printed. I’m nervous about the whole thing. I brought them this project on 8/26–still not done right.
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Yes…thanks Shane…it seems so elementary.
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Right.
The audio have been already mixed. Each channel you have the sound that should go to each of your ears (L&R).
If you don’t fully pan it, the audio will be mixed again and you will end up with a stereo with the same audio in the L and in the R.
Cheers,
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On tape all channels are “mono.” It’s when you play back the tape, or digitize the tape, you need to specify to the RECEIVING machine how to route the mono files. For instance channel 7 on your SR tape will be “mono” but it ONLY contains the audio data for the LEFT channel – once you bring it back into FCP you simply need to click in channel 7 in the timeline and then PAN it back to the left. Same with channel 8 and Right.
make sense any better?
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They did the first two lay backs from FCP to HD SR. Then they made a DVD dub (w/just the stereo L & R full mix)…BUT the DVD was in mono. So I went back–‘This ain’t right’–they go ‘ummm’, ‘It’s because your Lt/Rt aren’t ‘true stereo’–I go, ‘They are seperate mono wave files…one for L — one for R…you need to pan them. They say it doesn’t matter, they’re going into separate audio channels on the SR tape…so it is how you out put the SR when you down convert to DVD or digibeta or whatever. I say..’Ok then why do I have a mono DVD?
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If they are panned 0 then they are mono…they are NOT stereo. And they will not pass the spec as required by any network. You have to pan them.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
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…. one thought. Did you Reconnect Media in your project to whatever you original stereo files were?
It’s a known problem if you import an XML which has a stereo pair of audio, and you reconnect to that file, that FCP screws up and only reads the L channel for both: Hence truly mono.
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